Student Success Librarian - University Libraries

Job Details

Position Title: Student Success Librarian - University Libraries

Job Category: Academic Staff

Employment Type: Regular

The Student Success Librarian works in collaboration with students, faculty, and staff across all areas of the University to support student success services and units. The position seeks out and builds relationships with student-centered departments and programs across campus to support both curricular and co-curricular student needs.

Responsibilities

Student Success

• Cultivate and maintain liaison relationships with academic departments and administrative offices that support student success services, including advising, undergraduate research, honors, and other units.
• Collaborate with Campus Tutorial Services to develop initiatives that support student learning.
• Collaborate with units responsible for the Forward Scholars, Lawton Grant, McNair Scholars, pre-college and related programs to provide library instruction and research services.
• Collaborate with One Stop and Success Coaches to provide continuity of student support and coaching practices.
• Assist with Library collaborations with the Center for Students with Disabilities, including research support and accessibility of library resources.
• Assist with the coordination of Library instructional learning objectives to ensure lifecycle management.
• Support University strategic initiatives related to student success.

Instruction & Reference

• Serve as liaison to the assigned disciplines to promote and sustain a cooperative and consultative relationship between the library and academic departments.
• Identify information literacy instruction needs in collaboration with liaison department faculty and other Library staff.
• Participate in information literacy instruction for affiliated liaison departments, as well as other areas as needed.
• Collaborate with faculty to promote information literacy and provide patrons library instruction sessions onsite or virtually.
• Develop instructional tools including library user guides and tutorials.
• Design, teach and assess instruction sessions based on identified information literacy needs and objectives.
• Participate in assessment of student learning, as well as in other library-related assessment projects, and utilize results to inform instruction and library practice.
• Participate in the planning and delivery of team-based reference and research services; including providing reference services to faculty, students, staff and other library users.

Collection Development

• Assist in developing the Library's physical and online collections in assigned subject areas to support instruction, student learning, and research.
• Work with faculty and staff in assigned subject areas to collaboratively develop library collections that support learning, teaching and research.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in library science or relevant discipline, or significant course work to completion of degree
• Teaching and instructional experience in a variety of formats
• Experience working with students of various educational, socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds

Preferred Qualifications

• Awareness of student development theory or related learning scholarship
• Experience assessing student learning at the classroom and programmatic levels
• Experience or coursework in the natural sciences, health science, or computer science
• Working knowledge of Spanish, ASL, or other world language